Tanaka Luger P.08

Tanaka Luger P.08

Postby Knuckles » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:57 pm

Provided by: Airsoft Extreme | Product Page
Published on: March 4, 2008

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Tanaka put together a fine replica with their rendition of Germany's preferred sidearm for over 30 years. This is the "heavyweight" version of the Luger P.08. It is mostly made of a high-quality heavy black plastic with nicely blued metal pieces including the safety lever, toggle, left frame plate, trigger, and the entire magazine. The grip plates are made of a thin glossy black plastic, and the fit and finish overall are some of the best I have ever seen. There are no seam lines, gaps, or rattles whatsoever. Interestingly enough, it was shipped without any orange markings or a barrel plug.

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The pistol sits comfortably in the hand and the 55-degree grip angle gives it a unique feel and superb pointability. The Luger was famous for having a lousy sight picture and this replica is no different. The rear sight is a notch cut in the rear of the toggle and your front sight is a thin blade that is fairly hard to locate in good conditions, let alone in a combat environment.

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The controls are familiar enough (if you're right handed): the safety is above your right thumb, magazine release underneath your right thumb where the trigger guard meets the frame. "Gesichert" is "Safe" in German. If you can read it, you're safe, if the lever covers it up, you're hot. The toggle is where this pistol is truly different. Instead of pulling back the slide, you pull up and back on the toggle to chamber a BB. Every time you pull the trigger, the toggle moves up and back then strips a BB off of the magazine on the way home.

Loading the magazine requires the loading tool provided with the replica. I have tried loading them by hand, but it jams every time the toggle goes forward. As soon as you load the magazine using the tool it fires like a dream. The loading tool has three pieces that are easily lost, so take care not to misplace them.

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This pistol does not like cold weather. At 50-degrees Fahrenheit it will not fully cycle and it tends to vent its gas with the toggle half way up. Once it has warmed up it shoots nicely. It shot a consistent 233 FPS with HCF134a on a cloudy day in the high 60s. Accuracy was less than stellar. At 25 feet I had trouble holding a five-inch group. It has a nice light trigger with a short pull, but the sight picture is just too small for target shooting. It would do fine for torso sized targets in stress-shoot situations, though.

Overall, this is a great little pistol. It is well made and priced right around $200. The Luger was issued for decades and is still surfacing today in Iraq and Afghanistan. It fills a unique niche for WWII impressions and provides any one of us the ability to own one of these coveted bring-backs from a bygone era.

I'd like to give a special thank you to Airsoft Extreme for providing Airsoft Pacific with this piece for review. You can visit them at www.airsoftextreme.com.

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